Overtime: Time and ½

Laurentina's Improv Club

12 hours with 12 women artists and 7 women performers

Inspired by the 1970's project Woman House, artists, poets, writers, dancers and performers will take over the live/work space of Lauren Stein in Downtown Toronto. The work will occupy her kitchen, entrance-ways, livingroom, bed and bathroom. Come out to explore the works of these new and emerging artists! As always That's Women's Work is open to all self-identifying women artists.

Free entrance -- cash bar -- pass the hat (to pay performers)

Including works by Artists:

Irina Pertseva

Marissa O'Neil

Janet Pierre

Jen Leis

Caro Cloutier

Michelle Chermaine Ramos

Aisha Khan Porbunderwala

Rafeef Ziadah launched her album of collected spoken word poetry put to music at Toronto's Concord Cafe late last fall. She performed a few selected poems to an audience of friends, fans, musicians and of course Palestinian political activists. On Ziadah's anticipated debut album Hadeel, you'll find a selection of 10 poems that established this Palestinian spoken word artist's reputation as a political poet in Toronto over the past six years. Her work is accompanied by a diverse range of musicians, adding a new layer of depth to the work.

Christa Bell is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, and cultural activist from Seattle, Washington who received her BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, has studied in Europe and lived in east Africa. She writes, performs and curates arts events throughout the Northwest, where she is also a competitive performance poet and founder of the Healing Is A Political Act (HIAPA) Creative Recovery Workshop Series.

This will be the competition that decides who will be representing Vancouver and Canada at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Columbus Ohio March 10th-13th.

Embrace the word power of American Regie Cabico, Australia's Morganics, the UK's Lemn Sissay and Vancouver's Kinnie Starr, underscored by the improvised grooves of Sal Ferreras and his band Poetic License and accompanied by the visual pyrotechnics of VJ Candelario Anderade.

Embrace the word power of American Regie Cabico, Australia's Morganics, the UK's Lemn Sissay and Vancouver's Kinnie Starr, underscored by the improvised grooves of Sal Ferreras and his band Poetic License and accompanied by the visual pyrotechnics of VJ Candelario Anderade.

The A B Series in association with Kevin Matthews presents four acclaimed Australian poets/spoken word artists on The National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage. They are Alicia Sometimes, Emilie Zoey Baker, Justin Ashworth and Sean M Whelan, each of whom hails from UNESCO's recently announced City of Literature, Melbourne, Australia.